The radio was shouting at you, pleading with you, and seducing you.

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

You might say that the universe plays the blues.

The online music magazine Pitchfork once wrote that I would collaborate with anyone for a bag of Doritos.

Any kid will tell you that, yes, their music is both an escape and a survival mechanism, and that sometimes the music givesbthem hope and inspiration. It doesn't just placate and pacify.

There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told.

There's a good chance that you might be inspired by ideas that originate outside of yourself.

Powerpoint presentations are a kind of theater, a kind of augmented stand-up. Too often it's a boring and tedious genre, and audiences are subjected to the bad as well as the good.

I am happy that I can aid those admirable men, both living and dead, who by their pens or their tongues have aided the great cause of human liberty and universal happiness.

By your hand, millions - billions - of lives will be altered, caught up in a chain of events begun by you this day.

Too bad the things that make you mad are my favorite things.

That's the nature of research you don't know what in hell you're doing.

I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won't make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years.

I will never step foot in the Octagon

I'm tired of reading about history, I want to make it.

I'm not the type to turn to drugs and alcohol, but I do have a profound devotion to art and music - and children.

There is no greater tyranny than that of the dead over the living.

The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.